Before reading the remix introduction, I rarely ever focussed on copyrights. The article mentioned many cases of copyright issues that seem ridiculous. Sometimes people don't mean to do it, like the mother in the article. She just wanted to share a video of her son dancing to her family, but in the end she was sued $150,000 by Prince. Personally, I thought this was an overreaction. The mother was just sharing a video of her son dancing to a Prince song in the background. However, this just reminds people how important it is to give the original creators credit for their work, to avoid consequences like this. Even though many new ideas are originated from previous ones, credit should still be given to the owners because the new idea was based off the original one.
Throughout chapter 1 of “The Bedford Book of Genres,” I learned that there are a variety of ways to improve one’s writing. Several writers tend to get carried away while writing that they forget who their audience is and what message they are trying to deliver. This is when one must ask themselves what their purpose of writing is, do they want to present a narrative/ tell a story, inform, or persuade. After figuring out ones purpose they must choose a genre to be able to shorten their idea and be concise. In order for this to occur one must know the basic qualities and agreed-upon rules about the genre they are composing. Once one makes those decisions they move on to the rhetorical situation which mainly explains the idea. This allows the writer to provide support on their purpose such as saying what is great about it or provide statistics, which will automatically make their writing more interesting for the audience to read, as well as, get t...
Yes I agree the example with the mother is an overreaction. The reading does emphasize how important copyright laws are.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100%, Prince's reaction towards the mothers video post on Youtube was an overreaction. I also believe that this reading definitely emphasized the importance of copyright laws.
ReplyDeleteI agree that some of the copyright issues were ridiculous and that most people don't even realize they are doing it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said about the copyright being an overreaction. Im sure the mom wasn't aware of the consequences of posting the video with the prince track.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that the reading really made me realize how important copyright laws are, and how they are taken very seriously.
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